Intimacy in America: Dreams of Affiliation in Antebellum Literature

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Nineteenth-century America was a sprawling new nation unmoored from precedent and the mainstays of European nationalism. In their search for nationality, Americans sought coherence in a feeling of belonging shared among diverse and scattered strangers. Reading seminal works by Thomas Jefferson, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Walt Whitman, Peter Coviello traces these writers' enthusiasms and their ambivalences about the...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0816643814

ISBN13:9780816643813

Release Date:April 2005

Publisher:University of Minnesota Press

Length:229 Pages

Weight:0.71 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.8" x 9.0"

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History Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Social Science Social Sciences

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